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Carrollton City Council heard the first reading for Ordinance 2011-03 amending sewer rates for Carrollton Utilities customers at their meeting Jan. 24. Carrollton Utilities Manager Bill Osborne explained the purpose of the change was to add debt service on to the out of town rate for Ghent customers.

In a cafeteria filled with board members and employees of the Carroll County Memorial Hospital and the members of Carroll County Fiscal Court, Judge-Executive Harold “Shorty” Tomlinson yesterday presented a check for $100,000 to CCMH Board Chairman Jean Pyles and hospital administrator Kanute Rarey.

Fiscal Court voted during its Jan. 25 meeting to return a loan payment in the amount of $100,000 to the hospital to use as working capital during 2011.

The body of Mitchell D. Vories, 50, of Carrollton, was found Monday, more than a day after he had called police telling them he had been involved in an accident.

According to a news release from the Kentucky State Police Post No. 5 in Campbellsburg, Carroll County Dispatch received a 9-1-1 call on Sunday Jan. 30, at about 2:30 a.m. from a caller reporting that he had been involved in a crash; however, the caller could not provide an accurate location.

When two of pro football’s most storied franchises meet on the sport’s biggest stage Sunday night, millions around the country will be watching, including two of the teams’ biggest fans in Carroll County: Daryl and Jimmy Ray.

While the brothers will be cheering against one another in Super Bowl XLV—Daryl for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Jimmy for the Green Bay Packers — the rivalry won’t extend past the final whistle.

The nation’s largest manufacturer of stainless steel will begin its ninth expansion of its Ghent facility this spring with the addition of a new long products line.

That word came Friday morning at a news conference at the North American Stainless administration building attended by Gov. Steve Beshear where company officials said everything is in place for the project to begin.

In his report, Carrollton Mayor Gene McMurry explained to city council that even though the Three Courts subdivision, located between Gillock Avenue and Schuerman Street, has not been adopted by the city, the streets need names, per 911 regulations.

Three Carroll County creek repair projects will be forthcoming as county government has received approval for federal funding for watershed protection on creeks adjoining Carlisle Road, Four Mile Road and White’s Run. The announcement was made during the Tuesday, Jan. 24 meeting of Carroll County Fiscal Court.

Area residents had their first opportunity to meet with key players in the Milton-Madison Bridge replacement project last Tuesday, Jan. 18.

Aaron Stover, project manager for the Michael Baker Jr. architect firm, gave a play-by-play of the project that engineers and contractors will complete the bridge project to a crowd of about 200 people in the gymnasium of the new Milton Elementary School.

Stover’s firm was hired by state officials to oversee the design-build project, which will be orchestrated by Walsh Construction of Indianapolis.